About the Authors

Braden A. W. Brinkman

Contributed equally to this work with: Braden A. W. Brinkman, Alison I. Weber

bradenb@uw.edu (BAWB); aiweber@uw.edu (AIW)

Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alison I. Weber

Contributed equally to this work with: Braden A. W. Brinkman, Alison I. Weber

bradenb@uw.edu (BAWB); aiweber@uw.edu (AIW)

Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Fred Rieke

‡FR and ESB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Eric Shea-Brown

‡FR and ESB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAWB AIW FR ESB. Performed the experiments: BAWB AIW. Analyzed the data: BAWB AIW FR ESB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BAWB AIW. Wrote the paper: BAWB AIW FR ESB.